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‘Proper harvesting and post-harvest handling methods, as well as proper storage of fruits and vegetables not immediately eaten, will help maintain the flavor, texture and nutritive value of the produce.’

‘Processing of maize further reduces the nutritive value by removing the outer layers of the kernels, which contain a significant portion of the nutrients.’

‘Therefore, various strategies have been developed to improve the nutritive value of crops by modifying their protein composition through genetic engineering.’

‘Cutting more frequently at earlier stages of maturity results in forage with higher nutritive value but lower yield compared with cutting less frequently at more mature stages of growth.’

‘Barley is an important energy supplement but there is a large amount of variability in nutritive value among barley varieties.’

‘Chicory produces leafy growth that is high in nutritive value and mineral content if managed properly.’

‘Unlike vitamins and minerals, the thousands of phytochemicals in plants don't seem to have any nutritive value, but they apparently protect the body against cancer, heart disease and other illnesses.’

‘If you want to cut back a little on carbohydrates, cut back on those that have little or no nutritive value: soft drinks, candy, chips and other high-sugar or high-calorie snack foods.’

‘It was concluded, therefore, that alfalfa had greater nutritive value for horses than timothy or orchardgrass harvested at either the pre- or early-bloom stages.’

‘The present studies were conducted to determine the effects of common corn smut on the ensiling characteristics, palatability, and nutritive value of corn silage.’

‘Avoid foods that contain additives or lack nutritive value.’

‘Bilberry has been used as food for centuries due to its high nutritive value, and today represents a precious wild delicacy.’

1.1Providing nourishment; nutritious:

‘nutritive food’

‘She said that it could be effectively overcome by the consumption of highly nutritive foods.’

‘People are now conscious of healthy eating - but our taste buds do not want bland and nutritive food.’

‘In other cases, doctors advise change of environment to a pollution-free atmosphere, good nutritive food with multivitamin supplements and plenty of fluids.’

‘Earlier they used to provide some nutritive food supplements to the poor patients.’

‘In the nutritive sphere, food is partially cooked by the stomach, and then moved in the form of chyle to the liver where it is heated further.’

nourishing, good for one, full of nourishment, full of nutrients, nutritive, wholesome, healthy, health-giving, healthful, beneficial, sustaining, strengthening